By Brenda Zulu on Dec 20, 2007
Zambia is unlikely to meet the MDG on maternal health as more than 700 women i.e. from pregnancy related complications. This is according to former Health Minister Angela Cifire who bemoans that Zambia’s maternal health is one of the highest in the sub Saharan Africa region with 720 of 1,000 live births resulting in death.
According to the 2007 MDG report, Cifire observes that unlike the latest Hollywood trend ...
By codezed on Sep 4, 2007
According to an article titled 'How PDAs Are Saving Lives in Africa' in the UN Dispatch, Zambia is replacing paper-based health surveys with those used on PDAs (personal digital assistants). This means no data entry, no cumbersome clipboards, and most importantly no waiting weeks or months for data entry clerks to enter stacks of paper into a computer for analysis.
DataDyne.org, the non-profit organization founded by Joel Selanikio and technologist ...
By codezed on Aug 31, 2007
Reporting on information communication technologies (ICTs) is not on the agenda of many news rooms in Africa and thus e-health stories are never reported in the mainstream media.
Reality
Journalists in Africa have not specialised in reporting on ICTs and therefore find e-health, ICT stories to be difficult to follow and cover. Political stories still overtake ICT stories in the media. Editors feel ICT stories do not make news. At ...
